With hundreds of kilograms of ammunition making its way to the capital in the form of scrap, the army is busy disposing of the stockpile of more than 3500 pieces of mortars and rockets, defusing about 2000 of these.

Two Maoists were arrested on Friday
after a gunfight at Bera and Baghghora in West Midnapore
district and a huge cache of arms and ammunition were
recovered, most of which were snatched from joint forces,
police said.

Security forces on Tuesday claimed to have thwarted a militant plot to carry out terror strikes in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the Independence Day by recovering a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from a village.